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St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District, St. Louis — Area Guide & Where to Stay
St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District surrounds the first Bohemian parish founded in the United States, in the Soulard neighbourhood of St. Louis.
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Where to stay in St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
This is a few blocks of Soulard, not a district to book inside. The historic district runs along Eleventh and Twelfth Streets between Carroll Street and Lafayette Avenue, and the rooms are in Soulard proper or downtown, both a short walk off. The church is the reason to come.
Come on a weekday.
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About St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District
What are the main landmarks in St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District?
The church is Gothic Revival and built of brick. Adolphus Druiding of Chicago designed the reconstruction that followed the tornado of 1896, so what stands now is largely of 1897, and six ancillary buildings were listed with it. The parish school opened in 1869 across Eleventh Street.
School Sisters of Notre Dame ran it.
What is the history of St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District?
Bohemians founded it in 1854. St. John Nepomuk was the first national Bohemian parish established in the United States, a Czech newspaper was printed in one of its buildings, and the city named it a landmark in 1971 before the National Register listed it the following year. The parish closed in 2005.
The building serves as a chapel.
Where is St. John Nepomuk Parish Historic District?
The district sits in Soulard, south of downtown St. Louis, along Eleventh and Twelfth Streets between Carroll Street and Lafayette Avenue.
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Updated October 2026